Washing-machine.



F. B. RAYMOND.

WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR, 19, 1909.

Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

THE uomns PETERS cm. WASHINGTON. u. c.

UNI STATES Ariana OFFIC.

WASHING-MACHINE.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED B. RAYMOND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sault Ste. Marie, in the county of Chippewa and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ashing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in washing machines, and has for its general object to provide a simple, easily operated, and efficient clothes washing machine, wherein the clothes may be thoroughly washed with a minimum amount of labor and with minimum liability of tearing the fabrics.

In the drawings, wherein I have shown an embodiment of my invention; Figure 1 is a central vertical section through the same, and; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

In my improved washing machine I provide a tub or casing 5, preferably of metal, having a bottom 6 and a cover 7, preferably hinged at 8 to the body, such body being supported upon suitable legs 9. Upon the top and central portion of the casing I provide a bearing bracket 10, in which is mounted for revolution a shaft 11 having connected thereto, above the top, a balance wheel 12, provided with a handle 13, and said shaft having connected thereto and extending into the interior of the casing a relatively wide, thin, resilient shaft member lt, sufficiently flexible to have some torsionally yielding movement, said shaft member 1 1 having mounted on its end a dolly 15 of any suitable form, located above the bottom of the shell or casing. Upon the bottom of the casing and concentrically therewith, I provide a standard 16 having projecting therefrom a pin 17, on which is mounted for revolution a false bottom 18. Said false bottom 18 has upon its under side agitating cleats 19 preferably arranged in parallelism to extend across the false bottom and extending down nearly to the true bottom 6, and also has made therein in lines between agitating cleats 19 rows of perforations 20.

In the operation of the machine, soap and Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. April 19, 1909.

Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

Serial No. 490,676.

water are placed in the casing; the clothes are laid therein upon the false bottom 18, the cover is closed to bring the dolly 15 into an engagement with the clothes, and then the hand wheel 12 is rotated, preferably continuously and in one direction. The body of clothing forms a frictional connection between the rotating dolly 15 and the rotatable false bottom 18, so that the clothesbody and the false bot-tom rotate with the hand wheel. The space between the false bottom 18 and the true bottom 6 of the casing being filled with soapy water, the rotation of the false bottom causes the agitating cleats 19 violently to stir the water, forcing it upward through the holes 20 to and through the clothes thereabove, and at the same time the connection between the false bottom and the dolly, effected only by the mass of clothing, enables the various articles of clothes to be more or less stirred and changed in position, so that a rubbing action is combined with the forcing of the water upward through the clothing, fully and rapidly to cleanse the clothing.

It will be observed that the flat torsionally yielding shaft member 14 forms a slightly flexible connection between the prime mover or hand wheel 12 and the dolly 15, so that if the clothes pack or bind under any conditions, the connection between the dolly and the hand wheel may yield to an extent, thereby to minimize danger of tearing the clothes.

While I have herein described in some detail a particular embodiment of my invention, it will be apparent that changes in the details and construction may be made without departure from the spirit of my invention, and within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. In a washing machine, the combination of a casing, a dolly within the casing, a prime mover outside the casing, and a connection between said prime mover and the dolly, comprising a relatively wide, thin shaft member torsionally yieldable.

2. In a clothes washing machine, the combination of a casing having a bottom, a tween said hand Wheel and said dolly com false bottom rotatably mounted above the prising a flat, torsionally yielding shaft. 10 true bottom of the casing, having apertures In testimony whereof I hereunto set my therethrough, agitating cleats on the unhand in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

cler side of said false bottom, a cover for FRED B. RAYMOND.

the casing, a rotatable hand Wheel exterior In the presence of' to said cover, a dolly Within the casing GEO. P. MOCALLUM,

above the false bottom, and a connection be A. M. Doro. 

